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HANCOCK &mdash; Vermont State Police arrested three Hancock residents on charges of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine&nbsp; on Tuesday, Nov. 20, following an investigation at their respective homes off Route 125.</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">HANCOCK &mdash; A Hancock man on Sept. 12 pleaded innocent in Windsor Superior Court, criminal division, to a felony charge of aggravated sexual assault, after police investigated allegations that the man repeatedly engaged in non-consensual sex with a female neighbor described in court records as having been diagnosed with a mental disability.</span></p>
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HANCOCK &mdash; The town of Hancock will be a musical destination this summer, whether one is craving singer-songwriter folk music, a Pete Seeger style commemoration, or the lively rhythms of Vermont&rsquo;s largest Caribbean-style steel band.</p>
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Hancock&rsquo;s first annual free concert series will begin this Thursday, July 10, at 6:30 p.m. on the town green, sponsored by Hancock Town Pride with a grant from the Rutland Regional Medical Center.</p>
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VERMONT LT. GOV. Phil Scott, left, Jenny Nelson from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office, Hancock selectboard member Shelley Twitchell, USDA Rural Development Vermont and New Hampshire State Director Ted Brady and Diane Derby from Sen. Pat Leahy’s office pose at a recent ceremony in Chester where the USDA announced a $50,000 grant toward the conversion of Hancock’s 1850 schoolhouse into town offices and a library. </div>
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HANCOCK &mdash; On Monday, June 23, United States Department of Agriculture officials announced that more than $430,000 in USDA Rural Development Community Facility grants, loans and loan guarantees will be disbursed among eight organizations for the purchase, improvement and protection of community assets.</p>
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In Addison County, the town of Hancock received a $50,000 USDA grant toward the renovation of the 1850 schoolhouse, thanks in large part to the efforts of Hancock selectboard member Shelley Twitchell and Town Clerk Sarah Deering, who wrote the grant.</p>
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HANCOCK &mdash; The development of the Hancock Town Green is continuing. On Monday, May 19, a group of residents, led by Dick Robson, placed 14 memorial plaques at the base of the maple and crabapple Trees. Additionally, the selectboard purchased a raised memorial plaque for the Roxanne Sue Curtis Bowen memorial balsam tree that was installed this week.</p>
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NINETEEN PEOPLE COLLECTED this pile of garbage in Hancock on Green Up Day. The selectboard and the town clerk organized the pick-up parts and luncheon afterward. </div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">ADDISON COUNTY &mdash; This past weekend, residents all over Addison County got out their rubber gloves and green trash bags for the annual Green Up Day. While the tally of garbage collected is still rolling in and will be released in the upcoming week, event organizers said individuals and small groups cleaned over 15,000 miles of roads while the Vermont Agency of Transportation took on 2,700 miles of state highways and roads.</span></p>
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HANCOCK &mdash; A Bristol man riding in a cement truck was killed when the truck overturned on Route 125 in Hancock Wednesday afternoon. The driver was seriously injured.</p>
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Vermont State Police reported that Jason Barton, 35, of Winooski was driving a cement mixer truck eastbound on Route 125 around 1:20 p.m. on Sept. 25, with 45-year-old Michael Thompson of Bristol as a passenger. The mixer was loaded with concrete on the way to a job site.</p>
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HANCOCK &mdash; The Hancock Town Pride Committee recently received a $2,500 grant from the Vermont Community Foundation&rsquo;s Small and Inspiring grant program. The grant will help further the Hancock Town Pride&rsquo;s mission of fostering community spirit, beautifying the town and offering events and activities by creating the Hancock town green. The green will be located on Route 100 in front of the Hancock Fire Station.</p>
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BURLINGTON &mdash;Michael Wood, 45, and Steven Arnold, 20, both of Hancock, pled not guilty in United States District Court on Tuesday to an indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine. United States Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered Wood detained pending trial and scheduled a detention hearing on Feb. 28 for Arnold.</p>
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ADDISON COUNTY &mdash; As U.S. Postal Service officials implement a plan to wring costs out of rural post offices, some local residents have a last opportunity to affect how service will be cut in their towns.</p>
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USPS officials will host meetings in Monkton, Orwell, Shoreham, Hancock and Forestdale in coming weeks that will allow residents to give input on four options for cutting costs at their respective post offices &mdash; three of which include shutting the facilities down.</p>
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GRANVILLE / HANCOCK &mdash; Not two years after Hancock and Granville shuttered their shared elementary school, school boards in both towns are facing yet another potential closure.</p>
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This time, it is the Windsor Northwest Supervisory Union (WNwSU) that is mulling its options following a March 2010 vote by Bethel and Rochester residents to withdraw from the union.</p>
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